120 Colours on Loose Cotton, Late 19th C. Kuttroff, Pickhardt & Co.NYC Salesman Sample painted wooden doorstop Half the case is gone

Half the case is gone

one part modernist

perhaps his son

I grabbed it

120 Colours on Loose Cotton, Late 19th C. Kuttroff, Pickhardt & Co.NYC Salesman Sample painted wooden doorstop Half the case is goneI swooned when I found this one, at an antiques shop in Columbia PA, and can't find documentation of another like it out there anywhere. It was produced by Kuttroff, Pickhardt & Co., NYC, an early American dye company, started by the German immigrant Adolf Kuttroff to commercialize chemical dyes from the French firm A. Poirrier. In 1876, the company became the American seller of the Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (BASF) chemical company. (In 1925, it